Chapter 25: Wronged
Menis jumped up in shock, picked up the rice balls and said, "Jet, you want to save the rice balls!"
Jett immediately ordered the servant, "Arrest Dill at once, bring him to me, and live!"
Menes came back to her senses and said, "Keep a low profile and don't disturb everyone!"
The nobles and people in the audience just saw Menes get up, because they were far away and didn't know what was going on, but they saw Menes leave in a hurry, leaving only some female dependents.
Ipuya and Nana were also shocked, and someone was actually trying to kill Menes, and it must have been done by Ankotefi's gang, but fortunately they didn't succeed.
Menes arranged for the two to stay and stabilize the scene, and he and Jett quickly entered the temple.
The nobles in the audience wondered, why did the lord leave the stage?
Jett carried the rice balls into the temple's backyard, and Menes sat in the hall waiting for Dill to arrive.
Who was this Dill trying to kill me? Who was fooled into it? I wasn't good enough for them? Am I being too merciful to do this?
After a while, Dill was escorted in, and when he saw Menes, he immediately fell to his knees, looking dazed.
Menes looked at Dill and said, "If you don't want to be my god punishment mummy, you will honestly answer, "Why did you kill me, who sent you?"
"Huh?" Dill looked at Menis in surprise.
"My lord, I didn't want to kill you, I don't know what you're talking about?"
"You don't want to confess, do you? The Menes have a dungeon, you know?"
When Dill heard this, he immediately curled up, lay on the ground and cried, "My lord, I really don't know what you are talking about, why would I want to kill you?"
Menes sneered and said, "The cup you gave me is poisonous, but I didn't drink it, but my rice balls are now uncertain!"
"This ...... This...... This can't be, this is my family heirloom, how can it be poisonous, I drank it just now, it's not poisonous, you have to believe me!"
Saying this, Menes also remembered, yes, this cup of Dill drank it, and at that time it was worried that it was poisonous, but later he drank it and it was not poisonous?
Menes wondered.
"Let me ask you again, your wine glass is indeed a family heirloom, and no one has touched it?"
"Lord Hui, it is indeed a family heirloom wine glass, which has been hidden in the house before and has never been touched. Dill said.
At this time, Jett came over from behind and said, "Tangyuan was saved, fortunately, it was only a little stained, and it was no big deal!"
Menes breathed a sigh of relief.
Jett saw Dill on his knees and asked, "Who touched the glass before you gave it?"
Dill lay on the ground and looked at Jett in horror and said, "My lord, it's really my family heirloom, and it hasn't been touched." β
Suddenly, Dill seemed to think of something and said, "By the way, my brother-in-law moved, it was he who gave me the idea to give it to adults, saying that he wanted to please adults, I didn't know that this cup would be poisonous, I just wanted to please adults." β
"What's your brother-in-law's name?"
"Pentaval, home in Ram State!"
As soon as the three words of Ram State came out, everyone basically understood.
Jett thought about it, took the cup and looked at it over and over for a while, pointed to a small dot at the bottom of the cup and said, "I probably understand, this poison is called a sand worm, it is a poisonous insect that lives in the desert of death, it is rare, it is generally in a sleeping state, and I want to come to Dil's brother-in-law to hide this poisonous insect at the bottom of the cup, and then seal it." β
Jett paused and continued, "It should be that snake blower woke up the poisonous insects, and the poisonous insects mixed into the wine, so there was no poison before, and the snake blower was poisonous after the performance." β
Menes hurriedly said, "I just told you to find the snake blower, go and catch him." β
The servant bowed his head and said, "My lord, the snake blower is gone, and we didn't find him when we went to look for him." β
Jett looked at Menes and said, "So it must have been the snake blower, and the mastermind behind it was Ankotifi!"
Menes got up and sneered and said, "I'm really anxious to find death, I'm not in a hurry to kill him, he's in a hurry to find death by himself, it's good, I have an excuse!"
Jett looked up at Menes and said, "Your Excellency, we can't rush now, we shouldn't go to war with Ankotifi, we don't have the strength to do it, and we can't cross the river if the flood is coming!"
"I have my own way!"
"At the moment I think we have to find Pentawar to be able to testify against Ancotifi, so that at least we can stand on the moral high ground. Jett said.
There is nothing wrong with this, since you want to find an excuse, then you must be honest, and in the future, whether it is the Holy City or the White City, there is nothing to say.
Menes nodded and said to Nacht, "You go to the Ram State at once, and bring Pentaval back, quietly." β
Nacht thumped his chest in salute and looked back at Diel!
Menes said with a straight face, "Although Dill has nothing to do with you, but you have participated, joining the army and fighting should be a career with military merits, it is a shameful behavior to think about how to please your boss, you use everyone's trust in you to please me without authorization, this is called Xingjin, not a gentleman's doing, you are responsible for this matter, so you must be punished!"
Dill was still lying on the ground, and he didn't understand what Menes said, what was Xingjin, what was not done by a gentleman, but he knew that he would be punished, and bowed his head and said, "Soldier Dill is willing to be punished!"
"According to the regulations, you will be sentenced to three days of confinement, the army toilets will be cleaned for one month, and you will not be allowed to follow Nacht to arrest your brother-in-law. β
"Huh?" Dill thought he had misheard, so simple?
Nacht knew that Menes had spared Dill, and hurriedly said to Diel, "You still don't admit your guilt, thank you, my lord!"
Dill couldn't hold back his cry all of a sudden, kowtowing vigorously to thank him.
Menes was not used to seeing people kowtowing all the time, so she had to wave them down.
Everyone retreated, and Jett and Menes were left in the temple.
Jett bowed his head and said, "My lord, now is not the time to go to war, we have to be patient!"
"Forbearance, how long am I going to endure, one assassination, two assassinations, will it take three more times?" Menis shouted.
"My lord, this revenge must be avenged, but not now, Lord Andyèb has already talked with the high priest in the holy city, the high priest has an ambiguous attitude, we rashly attack, we are afraid that we will incur the dissatisfaction of the holy city, and then we will also fall into a passive situation, you also see the people's respect for the gods, once there is a conflict, I am afraid that the people will not be on our side!"
Menes looked at Jet hahaha and laughed, "Jet, I think you are too worried, first of all, the High Priest is not on the side of Ankotifi, whoever is beneficial to him will support whomever he wants, otherwise my father will not be in a hurry for me to ship the temple property to the Holy City, which proves that the High Priest only cares about property, as long as we comply with his needs, it doesn't matter who is the governor, and if I take the Ram State, it will only make him more profitable, so he will definitely not object." β